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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perform if / else

Posted by Jonathan Barnthouse
Jonathan Barnthouse
2,801 Points

Challenge Task 1 of 1

Challenge Task 1 of 1

Print “C# Rocks!” if language equals “C#” otherwise print language + “ is not C#.” So if I entered "Cheese" then "Cheese is not C#" would be printed to the screen. Bummer! I entered "bogus". I expected "bogus is not C#.", but got "pythonis not C#." instead.

CodeChallenge.cs 
string language = Console.ReadLine();

if(language == "C#") { System.Console.WriteLine("C# Rocks!"); } 

else { System.Console.Write(language + "is not C#.");

}
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Did you catch that magical string change?

If the error said, I entered "bogus"... but got "pythonis not C#.", there's more going on than a missing space!

You gotta wonder — how did "bogus" become "python"? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

There needs to be a space at the start of the string you append to the language variable, like this:

" is not C#."

When you append strings together they are merged without any spacing added, so if you don't add spacing manually you end up with words running together like you can see in the error message you got.

Jonathan Barnthouse
Jonathan Barnthouse
2,801 Points

thank you that helped; all solved.